AP headline writers...barely on the fringe of the journalism world ! Especially with a Palmer, Alaska event like that and not use the screaming, 48-point bold masthead:

PANTIES IN PALMER PROMISE PIPING PRIVATES

As a longtime AP staffer, and never on the fringe of the journalism world, I must point out that The Associated Press does not get to do actual headlines. The 48-point bold would have to come from the copy desk of the newspaper.

As a longtime AP staffer, and never on the fringe of the journalism world, I must point out that The Associated Press does not get to do actual headlines. The 48-point bold would have to come from the copy desk of the newspaper.

Sorry, MH -- or should I use your professional moniker (AP)? No offense intended. Just an attempt to be jocular on this Friday the 13th. (BTW, this entire apology is all off the record.)

As a longtime AP staffer, and never on the fringe of the journalism world, I must point out that The Associated Press does not get to do actual headlines. The 48-point bold would have to come from the copy desk of the newspaper.

Sorry, MH -- or should I use your professional moniker (AP)? No offense intended. Just an attempt to be jocular on this Friday the 13th. (BTW, this entire apology is all off the record.)

Hey, I didn't take offense. I, too, was being jocular. Although as a AP staffer I always believed we were in the mainstream of journalism.

Oh, and if you want it off the record you have to say so beforehand. So, everything you've said will be used against you. Count on it!

Lo and behold, there was the underwear article ON THE FRONT PAGE of this morning's Anchorage Daily News.....along with "World's Largest Plane Refuels in Anchorage"!! Stop the presses!! It's winter in Alaska......we're all bored......what can I say?

Excerpts from the article: "The men in Palmer have not been able to buy underwear in town since the mid-1980s.""The supermarket (selling the underwear) also will have a sushi bar.."

Woah! Underwear AND sushi in Palmer?! In the same place? Do you have to eat the sushi in your underwear? And what about the guys that haven't been able to buy underwear since the 1980s.......can they eat sushi too?